AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.30 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 32
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 4.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 64
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X and AMD Athlon Silver 3050C. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 2048 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 72

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 280 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  12 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and AMD Athlon Silver 3050C, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 128.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Castle Peak (Zen 2)
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  FP5 TRX4 (sTRX4)
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q4/2019